If It Bleeds, It Leads: Understanding Fear-Based Media (2011)

Posted by DrHilarius on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:07PM
from the psychologytoday.com dept.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/two-takes-depression/201106/if-it-bleeds-it-leads-understanding-fear-based-media

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Re:If It Bleeds, It Leads: Understanding Fear-Based Media (2... by DrHilarius on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:07PM (#29587210)

> The success of fear-based news relies on presenting dramatic anecdotes in place of scientific evidence, promoting isolated events as trends, depicting categories of people as dangerous and replacing optimism with fatalistic thinking.

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